Saturday, 16 March 2013

If it's all the same with you I'll stick to the mascara

Charles Ulysses on Salias Marschlin, in his Rambles through the French Jura, published in Winterhur in 1805, relates that in the neighbourhood of Poligny, it is the business of the younger females to keep the dunghills in order, and to pile them up in neat, regular squares. The smoother and more symmetrical the dunghill, the higher character of the superintendent of it obtains for housewifery and good management, and more does she attract the notice of the young men; while, on the contrary, those damsels whose dunghills exhibit marks of neglect, can only obtain admirers by their beauty and wealth. [New Monthly Magazine)

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